Police identify couple in homicide-suicide

The man and woman who died in the North End homicide-suicide Sunday morning have been identified.

Police say that Michael Erb, 43, of Tacoma shot his girlfriend, Annemarie Wargacki, 37, of Lakewood before turning the gun on himself. They both died of gunshot wounds to the head, according to the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Officers responded around 9:35 a.m. to Erb’s home in the 5000 block of North 18th Street and found Wargacki dead at the scene. She was several months pregnant, according to Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum.

Erb was taken to Tacoma General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

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